IPNetwork Monitor provides continuous monitoring of your company’s critical network services and resources. Unlike many monitoring tools, IPNetwork Monitor checks not only the availability of a resource but also its operability and performance characteristics.
The core element in IPNetwork Monitor is a monitor. It checks the availability of a service on a local or remote computer and requests a specific parameter value. Each monitor has configurable parameters that determine:
Monitor name
Monitor definition (what and how to check – monitoring parameters)
Polling interval
Dependency settings: Should the monitor change its state based on another monitor’s state?
Report types and frequency
You can define the conditions that trigger a state change on the State conditions tab. You can also specify the alerts the monitoring service should send when a monitor changes state or an event occurs.
Organizing Monitors into Groups
Grouping monitors by host type and monitor type simplifies managing your monitoring system. For example, you can create a host group for each location and organize your hosts (servers) accordingly.
Standard method for retrieving management information and performance data from Unix/Linux servers, Windows servers, networking equipment, and other devices. 70 common MIBs are included.
Simulates the actions of a real user interacting with a web application or e-commerce site. You can check web application availability and performance.
Checks a MySQL database for availability with optional authentication and SQL expression execution. Secure connection support is also available, which is especially important when monitoring hosted databases.
MS SQL Database
Checks an MS SQL database for availability with optional authentication and SQL expression execution.
WMI Traffic Speed
Calculates incoming, outgoing, or total traffic speed (average for a polling interval) on the specified network interface using data provided by the target host’s WMI service.
WMI Traffic Volume
Calculates incoming, outgoing, or total traffic volume on the specified network interface for a specified timeframe using data provided by the target host’s WMI service.
SNMP Traffic Speed
Calculates incoming, outgoing, or total traffic speed (average for a polling interval) on the specified network interface using data provided by the target host’s SNMP service.
SNMP Traffic Volume
Calculates incoming, outgoing, or total traffic volume on the specified network interface for a specified timeframe using data provided by the target host’s SNMP service.
Measures free or used disk space for a specified filesystem using data provided by the WMI service on the target host. Note: Unlike the generic Disk space monitor, this monitor does not require the monitored filesystem to be a network shared resource.
Shows various parameters (number of processes, CPU and memory usage) of a specified process using data provided by the WMI service on the target host.
WMI Uptime
Shows target host uptime in days according to data provided by the WMI service.
Polling
Monitors are polled (checked) at regular intervals defined by the user. By default, ‘Basic connectivity’ monitors are checked every 30 seconds, all others every minute. The minimum interval between polls is 1 second, but it is not recommended to use a polling interval less than 15 seconds. More frequent checks are practically useless, and they can degrade network performance, which contradicts the goal of monitoring. The result of a check is either a value or an error message. Depending on the returned value, the monitor stays in the OK state or transitions to one of two problem states:
Performance Warning
Down
IPNetwork Monitor reacts to monitor state changes by performing alerts assigned by the user to the corresponding state. Alerts are configured in Alerting Rules.
Dependencies
You can make a monitor dependent on the state of another monitor. This means the dependent monitor is checked only if the monitor it depends on is in a state other than Down, Stopped, or Stopped by Dependency. For example, you can make all monitors in a subnet dependent on a PING monitor to the gateway of that subnet. By default, a monitor inherits its dependency setting from its parent host; the default dependency is the PING monitor on its parent host.
Admin Tools
IPNetwork Monitor provides interfaces to manage your hosts (servers) directly from the client GUI. These include:
SSH client
Telnet client
Remote Desktop client
You can configure these interfaces on the Settings-> Admin Tools page. You can also specify a path to the device’s web interface on the host’s Main parameters tab.
Here you can find a list of alert types (ways of reacting to problems that occur during monitoring) available in IPNetwork Monitor and their brief descriptions.
